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In today’s global market, international patent protection can be crucial, and for many inventions Europe is an important region where patents are needed. According to the present system, considerable ...

The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) are new building blocks that will supplement and strengthen the existing centralized European patent granting and enforcement system. In short, ...

A vote by MEPs yesterday in favour of the unitary patent means that IP owners planning their patent filing strategies could soon have a new way of protecting their rights in Europe At the moment, ...

In a meeting at Poland’s Presidential Palace on January 23, the Polish government decided to not to sign the Unitary Patent (UP) agreement until it has observed how the system is implemented in other ...